Advertisement Continue reading the main story“I didn’t know how to talk, to banter, to move my body,” he said. Mr. Wilkins joined The Times editorial board in 1974 and later became an Op-Ed page columnist. From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Wilkins was a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington think tank. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyRoger Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Mo., on March 25, 1932, to Earl and Helen Jackson Wilkins. Mr. Wilkins wrote “Jefferson’s Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism” (2001).

Source: New York Times March 27, 2017 17:49 UTC